Two adolescent girls at Santa Fe Junior High (that's Santa Fe, Texas) decided to send their boyfriends some nudie pics of themselves sometime last week. In an act that was equal parts machismo and childhood stupidity innocence, the boys forwarded them to their friends. And they sent them on to their friends, and so on, and so on . . ....

As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the best of the above. Oh, right, read below....

Image courtesy Rude Mechs The Method GunThru 12/15, Th/Fr/Sa at 8pmThe Off Center (map)[info] | [tickets] The Dick Monologues12/16 at 2pmHyde Park Theatre (map)12/12 at 7pm (sold out)[info] | [tickets]In this season of family-friendly fare, we're pleased to highlight a bit of naughty-naughty for your holiday pleasure. Admittedly it's something of an intellectually flavored naughty-naughty, but hey, that's how we like it. Rude Mechanicals' current show The Method Gun contains nudity! Whee! Nude Rudes!! Which......

After Alicia Silverstone's spicy commercial for PETA—where the Clueless star delivers a PSA in the nude, save for some strategically positioned limbs—was deemed unsuitable for broadcast in Houston, PETA took matters into its own hands. Their newest video takes the viral route, and features a so-called "lone Lettuce Lady" delivering a rather innuendo-heavy message directed to Governor Rick Perry: Luckily for the Lone Star State, the sexy Lettuce Lady created an easy plan to help......

LOOK MEXICO What’s the Deal: If this doesn’t make you think of a particularly pleasant spring day, you’re playing it wrong. Sharp, layered guitars ‘pling’ back and forth in a way that would make Minus the Bear salivate. Inviting melodies charm over the winding guitar experiments and jazzy, traveling drums. In their video for “Guys I Need a Helicopter,” the band is playing outside under a canopy of Florida trees in cut-off shorts and......

This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King, and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and......

Consider Tuesday night another notch in Austin’s bedpost of filmmaking opportunity as the Austin Film Festival debuts its new year-round Conversations in Film series. This first installment “Script to Screen: Making the Short Film” will target the writers among us, but will also be useful to directors and filmmakers who need distribution tips for their shorts. Three Austin area award-winning filmmakers will lead the discussion, as well as screen their most recent/notable shorts:Steve Collins is......

Rain, rain, go away, we need to mow the lawn someday?! Aww, who are we kidding. We weren't going to mow it anyway, thank goodness the rain gave us a great excuse. There's way too much internet to surf and music to be heard to be working. Although we would like to go back outdoors at some point. Until then we'll just keep searching CL to bring you the best of last week's Missed......

It seems, where Pettitte goes, Clemens goes. Roger won't be around to save the Astros-he'll be busy saving the Yankees this season. Guess we can't blame Global Warming for the gradual decline in Irish Pubs. In the middle of a transition and confused about which bathroom to use? The Bathroom Liberation Front has created safe2pee.org for you...because these situations can be embarassing. Mexico City was certainly the place to be this weekend. If this......

Every year we need to find a new Christmas anthem. You know, a tune that symbolizes THIS year’s seasonal spirit. Last year, it was that absolutely awful “Please Let Me Have These Christmas Shoes For My Cancerous Mom” song. Well, this year, it’s GUNTHER and his lovingly video'd Ding Dong, It’s a Christmas Song. It’s unbelievably awesome! And Gunther is quite possibly the best Borat of all Borats. Ridiculousness. It starts out appropriate enough for......

Boy Culture Drama, Dir. Q. Allan Brocka, 2006 Screens: Thursday, October 5th at 7pm "Let's just call him X, a well-seasoned gay hustler with a string of steady johns. X is all business on the outside, the consummate professional---he's good for anything that pays and anything that pays is good. But X is a romantic with his own secret dreams of enduring love, a secret that frustrates both him and his improvised family---roommates Andrew,......

Earlier this morning, Tamara Hoover posted the following announcement to her MySpace blog: Hello all. Under advice of my lawyer (and not without great resistance on my part) I have agreed to settle the matter with AISD out of court. With this agreement the district asked that I resign my position as an art teacher at Austin High School. My legal bills were mounting and my lawyer felt that the settlement was in my......

Kazillionaire* is psycho-pseudosketch duo Madeline Malka and Jeremy Lamb. In this sketch show, they create the Kazillionaire* world - an Earth-like planet created by Mother Earth (Malka) and Father Time (Lamb) - created as a sort of side project to entertain the deities during their courtship. The history of Kazillionaire* and its other-worldly customs is humorously described by a creative use of video clips (ala Discovery channel), voiceover and Eastern hip hop rituals. Portraying most......

We don't know about you, but when we stand naked in front of the mirror sometimes, our tan lines are so distinct that... well, it kinda looks like we're still wearing our skivvies. In resolution to solve our little dilemma, we decided to go ahead and celebrate the tail-end of Nude Recreation Week by going to Hippie Hollow. Hey, we just want to look good naked. If you were awake at all, you know......

MONDAY [10] [music] Rancid, Street Dogs, Complete Control at Emo's (link) [music/party] End of an Ear and XL Recordings presents a special midnight sale and listening party for Thom Yorke’s The Eraser, with loads of giveaways! Plus, hear new albums from Peaches, Sufjan Stevens and others at Emo's Lounge (Free, 10pm-1am) (link) [music] Girls' Tribute to Clifford Antone with Marcia Ball, Angela Strehil, Lou Ann Barton, Toni Price, Carolyn Wonderland, and Eve Monsee at Antone's......

July is a patriotic month in America, and with it unavoidably comes the usual rhetoric about “freedom” and “liberty.” But when confronted with such blathering, many of us are forced to ask ourselves: Are we actually free? Are we truly enjoying the sumptuous fruits of liberty that our forefathers and foremothers sought when they came to the New World in the first place? Can we just take off our pants whenever, and it’s cool?......

A convicted drug dealer quoted Janet Jackson, Miss Jackson if you're nasty, as his final words before dying of lethal injection in Huntsville. Georgia wants to sue the Corps of Engineers for stealing their water. Georgia fears a drought and wants the water back...or something. Some employees of the Brushy Creek water treatment plant kept celebrating after an Open House and were fired for drinking in the parking lot and swimming in a retention......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

Would you fire this woman? The AISD board voted yesterday to begin the termination process of Austin High art teacher Tamara Hoover after partially nude photos of her appeared on Flickr. A fellow teacher was apparently bad mouthing Hoover recently in class when one of her students said something to the effect of, "Yea, well if you don't like her now, you oughta see these photos of her on the internet." The fellow teacher then......

Austin Monthly magazine is currently looking for a few good (single) men to be featured in their August spread of our town's "most interesting, successful, and charismatic bachelors": We are in the process of conducting our fourth-annual search for the most interesting, successful and charismatic bachelors in town to feature in our August issue of Austin Monthly. If you would like to apply yourself or nominate a candidate, please let us know! Our goal is......

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley......

Sean Penn has a voodoo doll of Anne Coulter. Where did he get it? We want one, too. A man in New Delhi unintentionally divorced his wife in his sleep because he said the word "talaq" three times in his sleep. Hmm...We wonder what would happen?... beer- beer -beer. Damn. Bush meets with Mexican President Vicente Fox tomorrow and Friday in Cancun. Fox is pleased with the guest worker bill that was before the......

Attention all those who are into laughing: we just found out that Russell Peter is coming to town. This dude performs all over the globe, but our favorite credit: Miss Nude UK (no link on purpose -- don't wanna get you in trouble with your office's censorship facists IT department). Known for being rude without being offensive, Russell's success on British and Canadian television proabbly means he doesn't suck. In fact, given what's on......

Did you attend all three days of ACL in September? Does the event inspire fond memories that don't include the heat and dust? Hey then -you're the perfect candidate to try out for Survivor. There's an open casting call at Sam's Boat on Braker beginning at 3pm today. We can only imagine what you'd be required to do to prove to them that you're hard-core enough, but they want you to at least be......

-Police in the UK are trying to figure out the true identity of the fake Earl of Buckingham, who "married under the false name, passed it to his children, laid claim to the Buckingham crest and promised his teenage son that the peerage would one day be his." Sounds almost too awesome to be true. -The crazy woman in Houston who drowned her five children back in 2001 has had her murder convictions thrown......

Like Michael Schliefke. He lives in Austin and he paints. Cool. Tonight (Friday, August 26th) from 6pm-12am, Schliefke will be opening his latest art showing, "A Hopeless Romance". Visit the Galerie Jean Moulin--once a house, now a gallery located one block west of Quacks--to see 20 new works and more than a dozen older pieces. Schliefke's work is big, bold, colorful portraits of the ordinary (a family a on their farm, morning breakfast in......

Annyong! Get out your frozen bananas, put on your favorite pair of denim cut-offs, and be prepared to laugh your little hearts out because Fox is starting an Arrested Development summer marathon tonight. Call it a delayed (or dare we say: arrested?) marathon, since it will take place every Friday from Jul. 29 to Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. A total of four episodes from the second season of the series will air each......